Mike Huckabee

Laura Ainsworth, Staff Writer

January7, 2019

Have you been perplexed and frustrated to no end by Social Justice Warriors who profess to be fighting racism and sexism while seeming to be the most racist and sexist of all? The ones who insist they hear “dog whistles” to which we’re not attuned but who don’t hear the sirens they themselves are emitting? The ones who point fingers but who simply need to look in the closest mirror to see someone obsessed with race, all the while saying it’s impossible for them to be racist? Let me tell you, I’m sick of it, too.

SJWs have redefined racism and sexism so that, under their definition, they can’t possibly be accused of it. This view doesn’t make sense at all, except to someone whose brain has been marinating in a concept called intersectionality, which is all over college campuses now but has apparently been around for decades in sociology and gender studies departments. The only way SJWs could get well-intentioned people to move towards policies that you or I would call racist or sexist was to redefine the terms. And if you don’t get it, you’re just proving their point by illustrating how clueless you, as a privileged person, are.

Former SJW Keri Smith has written an excellent piece called “Deprogrammed: Fighting Racism with Racism” in which she explains the torturous “logic” used to excuse leftist-style racism and sexism. For a couple of decades, she was immersed in that kind of thinking, but in the last two years she’s come to her senses. If the process for recovery sounds a lot like getting out of a cult, that’s because it is. Her task is to untangle a whole twisted belief system, “not only for myself,” she says, “but also for those who may be caught up in it, for others who have left it or are in the process of leaving it, for those who have lost friends or family to it, and for those who are just being exposed to parts of it and are wondering what it’s all about.”

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She says it’s getting easier to explain it to other people now that she’s been out of it for awhile. Just like any other recovering former cult member, she’s had to spend a lot of time reading and reflecting, and writing and talking about it.

Until now, I’ve never used the word “cult” to describe SJWs, but it sure helps explain the frantic, nonsensical, hysterical reactions to, say, Justice Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. We had women parading around in costumes from “The Handmaid’s Tale,” for God’s sake. These are women who have been programmed, mostly in college but also by popular culture, to have views reminiscent of George Orwell and the Junior Anti-Sex League.

In fighting against the patriarchy, they would never think that anything they said or believed could possibly be sexist towards men (especially white men). That’s because they’ve been indoctrinated in the concept of intersectionality. The way Smith explains it, intersectionality is a newer form of Marxism organized around the power and identity of the demographic group rather than social class. In fact, Smith calls it “centuries-old Marxism warmed over.”

Like the Marxism of Karl Marx, it’s based on collectivism rather than individualism. SWJs see and interact with the world through a “lens of power,” defining power not by a particular individual’s ability to exert his or her will, but on group “identity” and how many “marginalized” (oppressed) or “privileged” (oppressor) groups to which that person belongs.

To a SJW, all white people are racist because all white people have privilege. Period. You have white skin, the “reasoning” goes, so you can’t possibly know what it’s like to experience oppression. And if you’re not white, it’s virtually impossible for you to be racist towards a white person, no matter what you say or do. It’s all excused, because you are oppressed by white people. If you are really out there in SJW-land, you can even hate a white person --- hey, you’ve got good reason. If it helps equalize power, you can even attack a white person. If he dies, well, think of all the black people who have been unjustly killed by white people over the years.

When a freshman Congresswoman called the President of the United States a “m-----f-----,” remember how she defended that? Why, she was just “speaking truth to power.” That excuses everything, so, naturally, she didn’t apologize. In fact, while the “oppressed” can say anything, the “privileged” (white, male, non-SJW) must be censored.

Oh, and it goes far beyond one’s choice of words. If violence or even revolution can accelerate the pace of the dedicated SJWs desired social change, then in his or her mind, it’s ethical. It’s virtuous because it’s fought in the name of ending social injustice.

I’ve always been partial to the observation by Friedrich Nietzsche that “we become what we hate,” and as she recovers, Keri Smith has been thinking about that, too. In Nietzsche’s words, “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” SJWs, in their quest to obliterate centuries of racist and sexist oppression (which did really happen), have found a way to rationalize doing the very same thing, just to different people. Maybe, like the oppressors of old, they’ve found they enjoy keeping other people down.

I did not vote for President Obama. Either time. (Race had nothing to do with it; in fact, if Herman Cain had become the Republican nominee, I would have proudly helped put him in office.) But when Obama was elected, the one silver lining for me was the thought that a huge racial hurdle had been crossed. Just a little over half a century ago, black people were riding in the back of the bus, and now we had an African-American President! How wonderful, just in principle, that a black candidate could be elected President of the United States, and that there were people of all races who voted for him.

But what a disappointment. Since that time, and certainly since the election of Trump (which also excuses anything SJWs do), accusations of sexism and racism fly faster than ever. A whole generation (maybe two) of college students has been brainwashed about intersectionality and privilege, and these are the people who are beginning to take top positions in government and corporate leadership. Imagine a steady march of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezes “speaking truth to power,” clutching their college degrees but understanding nothing about economics, the Constitution or the sacredness of the individual.

Once you see how this mindset works, it explains a lot more. An entire political party has been labeled racist and sexist, plus homophobic and Islamophobic and all those other “deplorable” things. And, of course, since Muslims are seen as a marginalized group in America compared to Christians, anti-Christian bigotry is excused. There’s even support for the “no walls” argument: Americans are more privileged than non-Americans, so all immigrants, especially non-white ones, must be allowed in to even the score.

In the battle for social justice, the unique individual doesn’t matter any longer, just as one person doesn’t matter under Marxism, only the group. This collectivist philosophy is totally at odds with the American concept of individual rights and “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” (Of course, that phrase was written by a white male, so forget it.) I hate to be an alarmist, but America will be over if we don’t start standing up against this garbage and straightening out a horrifically twisted way of looking at society.

Thanks for the many thoughtful comments in response to “So, really, what is going on with Joe Biden?” Those of you who have been through the heartbreak of having a loved one suffering with mental decline can’t help but see the same signs in Joe Biden on the campaign trail.

Thanks for the many thoughtful comments in response to “So, really, what is going on with Joe Biden?” Those of you who have been through the heartbreak of having a loved one suffering with mental decline can’t help but see the same signs in Joe Biden on the campaign trail.

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Comments 1-9 of 9

Lisa Doig

01/10/2019 09:45 AM

Governor Huckabee, thank you for being such a consistent, respectable and honest voice for truth on all issues (intentional repitition of honesty & truth) in this country. God bless you! Lets PRAY for our country and our President and please keep speaking!

Debra Smith

01/09/2019 09:56 AM

Even though I truly enjoy and appreciate all of the articles written here, I rarely comment. On this one I must. Bravo!! The light is dawning on those cloaked in the darkness of “social justice”. I pray for the multitude that need these truths. Thank you!

Lawrence E. Foster

01/08/2019 07:22 PM

Governor Mike,

You can call it "Intersectionality", you can call it "social Justice", but i prefer a more old-fashioned term we used in the Army - "Doo-doo for brains" (No, we did not say "doo-doo).

Walt & Linda Davis

01/08/2019 03:28 PM

Great article. Thank you

Ann T Guymon

01/07/2019 09:09 PM

It is much more admirable to be in contrast to a way of life you exhibited for so long and to acknowledge realization of what is really happening in today’s colleges Thank u for being so outspoken and I pray u will continue to do just that ??

Keri Smith

01/07/2019 08:42 PM

Thank you Laura, for sharing the piece. I wanted to respond to Jan C and tell her I've been seeing and hearing about the same thing in churches. It's called "SJW Convergence," where enough believers take leadership roles in an organization, school, company or church until the SJW ideology subverts the entity's original mission. In the case of academia, for example, the primary goal becomes accepting and preaching this ideology - and viewing everything through this lens - so that learning and searching for truth is subverted. In the case of the church, when this ideology takes hold it supplants the very word of God itself. It becomes the *primary* objective, the lens through which everything is viewed. It IS a belief system, a religion of sorts, and you can't serve two masters.

Linda Olds

01/07/2019 12:58 PM

I had the same thoughts as the writer on the election of President Obama. Though I didn't vote for him, once he was elected, I thought it was great that America was able to elect an African-American, and I hoped that it meant that racial tensions would ease. That didn't happen. I was disappointed that Mr. Obama felt that he needed to "fundamentally change" America, an America that had elected him, and that was and is a place that millions of people around the world want to move to. That administration could have improved racial relations, but instead helped to bring about the climate that encourages these SJW people.

ROBERT MCFATE

01/07/2019 12:45 PM

I truly believe that "1984" is used as a text book to explain how thing should be. You can see the DemonRATs moving closer and closer to the brainwashed society that is shown in that book!

Jan C

01/07/2019 12:25 PM

Very well said and extremely important for us to understand this. Too, we must understand this trend is ALSO in the church. I do not want to name names, but key buzz words and ideas we see there are: "the marginalized" the attack on the "American Dream"; the idea that the American Christian is too political and more concerned about the things they are against (gay marriage, abortion, etc.) than their faith. The Social gospel pervades the movement, which is actually “Christianized Marxism". In my opinion, the church is the final "pillar" which the left is working to bring down.